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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
MOLIERE

Heart Integrity Virtue
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
MOLIERE

Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
MOLIERE

Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
MOLIERE

Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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Medicine Money Trade Yourself
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
MOLIERE

Action Responsibility Silence
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
MOLIERE

Easy Fools Love Oneself
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety

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